Charlie Kindel, the Seattle tech veteran who left his job as a
Microsoft Windows Phone general manager in 2011 to join the
startup world, has now been hired by Amazon.com as the director of
an undisclosed project inside the company.

“I’m building a new team going after a totally new area for
Amazon. I’m hiring cloud and mobile developers and testers,
program managers, and product managers, he writes on his LinkedIn
profile, which describes the position as director of “something
secret.”